Anthony Hope, 1863-1933

Biographical note

English novelist and playwright. Although he was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels, he is remembered
best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898). These works, "minor
classics" of English literature, are set in the contemporaneous fictional country of Ruritania and spawned the genre
known as Ruritanian romance. Zenda has inspired many adaptations, most notably the 1937 Hollywood movie of the same
name.